Open Source Software Trends in GovernmentGovernment in the Open IT Ecosystem in 2011

Deborah Bryant • Public Sector Communities Manager • Oregon State University Open Source Lab

@debbryant

March 24, 2011

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About the Speaker

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OSU Open Source Lab (OSL)• The OSL is a unique facility housed within the Oregon State

University administrative computing facilities.• The OSL data center provides platform stability and support

for the world’s largest community-based Open Source applications

• Hosts over 140 servers, 40 major projects including Mozilla, Apache, OpenOffice, OLPC, Linux Foundation & Master Kernel, Drupal Project, formerly Firefox

• It is a renown global resource, distributing open source software (millions of downloads a day)

• In 2005 the first Government Open Source Conference demonstrated a need for a Public Sector program

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Open ID Fdn Drupal Fdn Apache Fdn Linux Fdn

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Innovation

Open Innovation

OSL

• Hosting

• Distribution• S/W Development

• Collaborative Development Environment

• High Speed/ High Capacity Network

• Adminstration

Global Open Source Community Support

OSL in the Open IT Ecosystem

• Government• Education• Not-for-Profits

Public Sector

Outreach

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Education:Now in its seventy year, the permanent GOSCON archive site contains presentation materials from industry luminaries and government management experts.

The event is key as a community-building platform for education and collaboration in the sector.

www.goscon.org

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Government Open Source Conference

The permanent GOSCON archive site contains event materials from industry luminaries and government management experts.This is a key strategy as a platform for collaboration and education.

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Open Source: A Way of Life

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Today’s Talk: The Open Source Way for Government

Government is...

• Adopting “off the shelf OSS”

and

• Initiating Collaborative Development of Vertical Applications

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Trends• Open IT Ecosystem is maturing, making it

more attractive to Government enterprise

• International: Governments earlier open adopters, now institutionalizing policy, practice, and operations

• US: Ahead in commercialization, now fashionable to discuss policy.

• Open Gov movement steps up the use of Open Source (Data Gold Rush)

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Federal

• US Health and Human Services CONNECT

• US Veterans Affairs VistA

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Federal Convenes

• Homeland Security Open Source Round Table

• State Department Tech@State: Open Source

• NASA Open Source Summit

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We will lead efforts of discovery, collaboration, and seeding development in open source software and practices that produce a measurable impact

Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST)

DHS Initiative 2011

• 2010: seeds oss security projects• 2011: information portal in beta

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Federal

• NASA

• own osi approved license

• projects like World Wind

• open source “Nebula” cloud computing

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State

• New York State Senate

• Oregon Virtual School District

• State of Oregon Asterisk Deployment

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National Consortium for Offender Management System (NCOMS)

Members:

Alaska

Idaho

Montana

Missouri

South Carolina

Tennessee

Colorado

Kansas

Formed in 2003 as a grass roots coalition of State Correctional Agencies organized for the purpose of developing, maintaining, and enhancing a comprehensive offender management system based on “Open Source” technology and standards. The goal of this system is to be able to track all aspects of offender incarceration, supervision, and rehabilitation from a single application.

www.ncoms.us

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Initiated as a county collaboration, the LEADR system is now in use by the states of South Carolina and Tennessee, with over 250 agencies additional

agencies adopting LEADR.

This cost-effective open source based software is now freely available to all law enforcement agencies. Key capabilities include data sharing, web-based

records management and gang data collection and reporting.

www.statefusioncenter.com/leadr_at_a_glance.shtml

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Local Gov

• San Francisco: Open311

• Newport News VA: Open eGov

• Polk County, Oregon: GIS

• San Mateo County: VOIP

• Libraries (plinkit cooperative)

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Oregon government innovation

Asterisk use case: Open Source PBX deployed by the State of Oregon

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Open Source Crisis Management

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February 23, 2010

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Hybrid Pubic/Private Models• Open Source Digital Voting Foundation

• State by State, Federal Standards

• Trisano Disease Tracking System

• CDC-funded, project execution by a private firm

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2009: Civil Service is Hip

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! EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

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December 8, 2009 M-10-06 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Peter R. Orszag Director SUBJECT: Open Government Directive

In the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on January 21, 2009, the President instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue an Open Government Directive. Responding to that instruction, this memorandum is intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum. This Directive was informed by recommendations from the Federal Chief Technology Officer, who solicited public comment through the White House Open Government Initiative.

The three principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration form the cornerstone of an open government. Transparency promotes accountability by providing the public with information about what the Government is doing. Participation allows members of the public to contribute ideas and expertise so that their government can make policies with the benefit of information that is widely dispersed in society. Collaboration improves the effectiveness of Government by encouraging partnerships and cooperation within the Federal Government, across levels of government, and between the Government and private institutions.

This Open Government Directive establishes deadlines for action. But because of the presumption of openness that the President has endorsed, agencies are encouraged to advance their open government initiatives well ahead of those deadlines. In addition to the steps delineated in this memorandum, Attorney General Eric Holder earlier this year issued new guidelines1

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for agencies with regard to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). With those guidelines, the Attorney General reinforced the principle that openness is the Federal Government’s default position for FOIA issues.

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/foia-memo-march2009.pdf"

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Launched

July ’09---

2010Open Gov

Report Card-

2011Gov Case Studies

Project

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WhiteHouse.Gov moves to open source

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Civic Initiatives

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imho What’s Needed.• Less Buzz

• More Investments like HOST

• Better Documentation (Case Studies)

• More skilled work force

• Greater Cultural Exchange (public/private)community

• More kudos to unsung heros

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Thank you!

Questions?

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For Further info

Deborah BryantOregon State University Open Source Lab

public sector communities manager

deb@osuosl.org

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supplemental materials

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“Our commitment to the development and application of Open Source is consistent with our drive to be the land grant university of the 21st century.

Through open source activities we are helping under-served

populations around the world and creating new industries and new

products at home.”

Ed Ray, PresidentOregon State University

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Why the Government focus for OSU OSL?

• Supporting state and local government aligns with OSU’s public benefit mission

• Government has been a quiet early adopter of open source, demand is high for trusted, vendor neutral assistance

• Trend in Federal funding has shifted to favor collaborative efforts at the local level.

• Opportunities abound for sharing development costs, knowledge base and related resources amongst government agencies with shared business problems

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Collaborative Community • National: Health Information Technology

• www.connectopensource.org

• Provincial: Public Safety Information Sharing

• statefusioncenter.com/leadr_at_a_glance.shtml

• Provincial: Correctional Facilities Management (Prisons)

• www.ncoms.us

• Municipal: eGovernment Platforms

• www.nngov.com/egov/open-egov

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“The success of GOSCON is igniting a national movement toward solutions that focus on forward-thinking development through collaboration and innovation.”

Dr. David Boyd

Director, Command, Control and Interoperability

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Science & Technology Directorate

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